Senior AI Safety Evaluator (Remote Contract)

mercor; France; Remote; EUR 74,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks an AI Safety Practitioner for remote, contract work evaluating AI responses for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance. The role covers sensitive content areas and requires refining evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT with researchers and safety teams.

The candidate will identify unsafe outputs, bias, and policy violations, delivering structured feedback to improve alignment and safety across AI systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, Trust & Safety, journalism, public policy, or a related field.
• Excellent written English, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning skills.
• Ability to consistently evaluate nuanced and policy-sensitive scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for safety, factual accuracy, policy compliance.
• Review content involving misinformation, political persuasion, self-harm, violence, cyber, biosecurity, and other sensitive domains.
• Apply and refine evaluation rubrics for RLHF, SFT, and AI safety benchmarking.
• Identify unsafe outputs, hallucinations, reasoning failures, and policy violations.
• Provide structured feedback to improve model alignment and safety performance.
• Collaborate with AI researchers and safety teams on ongoing evaluation initiatives.

Skills

Analytical reasoning

Written English

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Mercor seeks an AI Safety Practitioner for remote, contract work evaluating AI responses for safety, accuracy, and policy compliance. The role covers sensitive content areas and requires refining evaluation rubrics for RLHF and SFT with researchers and safety teams.

The candidate will identify unsafe outputs, bias, and policy violations, delivering structured feedback to improve alignment and safety across AI systems.